Sam Altman says people may someday “buy intelligence on a meter” like electricity or water and critics say the vision sounds more dystopian than innovative.

Sam Altman says OpenAI wants to sell intelligence like a utility

During a recent appearance at BlackRock in Washington, D.C., OpenAI’s Sam Altman, shared his vision for the future of AI. At one point saying, “We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.”

Altman was describing a world where AI becomes a foundational infrastructure, something woven into everyday life so deeply that consumers and businesses simply “plug into” it the same way they rely on electricity, Wi-Fi or running water.

  • NickwithaC@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    7 hours ago

    It feels weird thinking of the amazing Spiderman as “back in the day” when I remember the Toby McGuire Spiderman films.

    • CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      2 hours ago

      This gets worse and worse as time goes on. Movies like Superbad seem like they just came out a few years ago but is actually about to be 20 years old. The Toby Maguire Spiderman is about to turn 25 years old, a quarter century!